Schedule

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Date	Time	Place*	Speaker	Title	Comments, Links,...
Mon, Apr 28	2:00 pm	SSR	Program Organizers	Organizational Meeting with all Participants	See IPCC report: Climate Change 2007
Tue, Apr 29	4:00 pm	Broida 1640	Brad Marston	Physics Colloquium: The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming	Tea & Cookies at 3:30
Thu, May 1	12:00 --1:30 pm	SSR	Jeff Weiss	Lunchtime Seminar: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Climate Variability	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
May 6 - 10	8:50 am	MSR	Conference speakers	Frontiers of Climate Science	Conference Week
Thurs, May 8	4:00 pm	Porthole Lounge	informal discussion	cloud modeling	Located next to room 2512.
Mon, May 12	2:00 pm	SSR	Program Organizers	Organizational Meeting with all Participants	2nd organizational meeting
Tue, May 13	10:00 -- 11:30 am	SSR	Paul Williams	Unresolved processes in climate models: lessons from the laboratory	Weekly seminar that will move to a 2pm slot in subsequent weeks.
Tue, May 13	4:00 pm	Broida 1640	Grisha Falkovich	Physics Colloquium: Broken and Emerging Symmetries of Turbulence	Tea & Cookies at 3:30
Wed, May 14	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	SSR	Matt Huber	Hyperthermals, Heat Death, and Hurricanes: Implications of a Hotter Eocene Hothouse	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
Fri, May 16	1:30 pm	Aud	Barbara Levi	Reporting for Physics Today *POSTPONED*	Talks on journalism and science
Fri, May 16	1:30 pm	Aud	Matt Huber	Part II of talk: Hurricanes
Tue, May 20	2:00 -- 3:15 pm	SSR	David Lea (UCSB)	Climate Proxies and the Last Ice Age	Regular Tuesday seminar
Wed, May 21	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	SSR	Joerg Schumacher	Heat transfer in convective turbulence	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
Thur, May 22	11:00 -- 12:30	MSR	Roger Nisbet (UCSB)	Overview and informal discussion about quantitative ecology	To help prepare us for the upcoming miniconference.
Fri, May 23	1:30 pm	Aud	Sandra Chapman	Antarctica -- Notes From The Field	Art from Antarctica
May 27 -- 30	9:00 am --	MSR	Miniconference speakers	Pyrogeography & Climate Change	4-day miniconference: no other regular climate talks this week
June 2 -- 6	all day	various	Miniconference participants & others	Informal discussions
June 2	12:00 noon	Aud	John Doyle (Caltech)	Power Laws Demystified	(in place of the regular Tuesday seminar this week)
June 3	12:15	NCEAS	David Bowman	Pyrogeography: integrating across the temporal, spatial and cultural dimensions of fire	Special NCEAS Ecolunch.DIRECTIONS FROM UCSB BY BUS: You can get to NCEAS by taking the 11:40 a.m. bus (# 24x) from campus. From the transit center, walk one block east to State Street and two blocks south to the Balboa Building at 735 State Street.
June 4	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	Aud	Alain Pumir	From aerosols to rain drops in clouds: The role of turbulence	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches (note room change due to LHC conference that will use SSR this week)
Mon, June 9	12:15 -- 1:30 pm	Aud	Paul Kushner	Climate Models and Climate Sensitivity	KITP Blackboard Lunch Seminar
Tues, June 10	2:00 pm	SSR	Peter Ditlevsen	Understanding climate dynamics from past changes	Regular Tuesday seminar
Weds, June 11	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	SSR	Jeremie Bec	Turbulent suspensions of heavy particles	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
Fri, June 13	1:30 pm	Aud	Joan Feynman	Climate Stability and its Effect on Human History Abstract_CV_JFeynman.pdf	A talk of general interest focusing on the cold period in Northern Europe during the 17th century, the collapse of the Maya in the 9th century, and the invention of agriculture about 10,000 years ago.
Mon, June 16	4:00 pm	SSR	Michael Shats	Spectrally condensed turbulence in two dimensions
Tues, June 17	2:00 pm	SSR	Andi Andreae	Interactions between Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate	Regular Tuesday seminar
Weds, June 18	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	SSR	Yangang Liu	Seeing through the haze of aerosol indirect effects on climate	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
Thurs, June 19	11:00 am	Aud	Barbara Levi	Reporting for Physics Today	Talks on journalism and science
Thurs, June 19	2:00 pm	Aud	Sasha Brun, Alexander Ruzmaikin & Joan Feynman, Peter Ditlevsen, Steve Tobias	Solar Variability and its Possible Effects on Climate	Co-sponsored by the Dynamo program
Tues, June 24	2:00 pm	SSR	Olivier Pauluis	The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes	Regular Tuesday seminar
Weds, June 25	12:00 -- 1:30	SSR	Pat Diamond & Sasha Balk	"Zonal Flow Generation Mechanisms -- Wave Number and Configuration Space Perspectives" & "Zonal jets: The extra invariant for Rossby wave dynamics"	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches (co-sponsored this time by the Dynamo program)
Mon, June 30	2:00pm	SSR	Program Organizers	Organizational Meeting Of All Participants	To meet new members and discuss agenda for last 2 weeks of the climate program.
Tues, July 1	2:00 pm	SSR	Paul Kushner & Lena Kartashova	Temporal power-law characteristics of the atmospheric general circulation & A simple generic model of intra-seasonal oscillations in the Earth atmosphere	Regular Tuesday seminar
Tues, July 1	4:00 pm	Aud	Alessandra Lanotte	Informal discussion on Condensation of cloud microdroplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence	Special seminar
Weds, July 2	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	SSR	Lian-Ping Wang	Turbulent collision-coalescence of cloud droplets and its impact on warm rain initiation	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
Weds, July 2	4:00 pm	Aud	Ray Pierrehumbert	Supersonic escape	Special seminar
Thurs, July 3	12:00	Aud	Brad Marston	The direct calculation of statistics in models of geophysical flows	Informal presentation
Thurs, July 3	1:00 pm	Porthole Lounge	Ray Pierrehumbert	Cold convection during snowball Earth periods	Located near room 2512
Weds, July 9	2:00 pm	Aud	Paul Kushner	Annular Modes	Regular Tuesday seminar (POSTPONED TO WEDS)
Weds, July 9	12:00 -- 1:30 pm	SSR	Lance Collins	Inertial particle dynamics in turbulence: interplay of numerical and experimental studies	Weekly lunchtime seminar on statistical approaches
Thurs, July 10	11:00 am	Aud	Kirstie Stramler	Preferred states of surface and atmosphere	Discussion
Fri, July 11	1:30 pm	Aud	Barbara Levi	Informal discussion on talking to the public and the press.	Talks on journalism and science

*Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room [TOP]